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Meanwhile, a major multi-academy trust draws up proposals for subsidised teacher housing on surplus land to fund repairs and tackle recruitment crisis

Falling birth rates across the UK will have massive implications for schools, which are funded according to the number of pupils on their rolls. At a time when schools are already facing huge financial pressures, the future looks even bleaker, finds John Morgan

Exclusive: Spending on training has been ‘squeezed’ by other financial pressures on schools, analysis by data service SchoolDash shows

Free school meals must be extended to all on universal credit to avoid jeopardising schools’ efforts to tackle the disadvantage gap, sector leaders tell the government

Respected funding thinktank tells government it must raise funding to deprived schools outside London to meet levelling up agenda

Plea to the education secretary for action to address the ‘persistent state of stress and burnout’ among teachers

NAHT Cymru is proceeding with a formal strike ballot after an informal vote suggested that 64 per cent of respondents would be willing to strike over pay and funding

Many school leaders will be worried about what the chancellor’s statement ‘could mean’ for education, warns union leader

Your roundup of 91¶¶Òõ’ most popular news and features articles from the past week, including fears that the government’s spending plans could cost tens of thousands of jobs, and a major research study that casts doubt on a DfE-approved phonics scheme

Exclusive: Government academy debt write-offs could go ‘up and up and up’ amid the funding crisis – but this would just ‘paper over the cracks’, warn sector leaders

Exclusive: Trusts raise alarm as Condition Improvement Fund loans could now cost them tens of thousands of pounds extra to repay

Research shows government catch-up has been ‘nowhere near enough’, say union leaders